Re: [Fwd: Dia Font]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> 
> Pascal,
> 
> I'm writing this to you on the dia list at GNOME (check dia's site for
> how to subscribe -- I usually don't reply to non-subscribers); Alex is
> now not much involved anymore in dia. He kindly forwarded your comments
> to the list.
> 
>> I need to make an vector based Logo - in it I want to us the Linux Font
>> Gothic I. But in the Font-Menue I just have Fonts where are not
>> installed !  Can you give me a hint how to install and use new Fonts
>> under Dia ?
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not currently possible; for various historical and
> non-historical reasons, dia uses a fixed list of fonts (there is some
> work being done to resolve this issue, albeit not at a very high
> priority).

Depending on what you're using the output for, you can try compiling with
--enable-freetype (requires libfreetype2).  It will not let you print, but
it will let you save to PNG.

-Lars

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